City director of planning and development Ralph Rognstad speaks at the Rountree Neighborhood Association meeting at Rountree Elementary on Tuesday, July 17, 2012

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City Council voted Monday to table an ordinance regulating homeless shelters, sending it back to the Planning and Zoning Commission to be revised.

The ordinance, which includes a number of proposed changes to the city's zoning rules, would require a 1,000-foot buffer between any new homeless shelters and existing elementary and secondary schools.

An earlier version of the bill also would have lifted a rule limiting the size of new shelters to 50 beds or fewer. Several zoning commissioners objected to that change, however, saying it would take away an objective limit that is important to ...